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Post by yokollama on Jun 18, 2019 10:54:23 GMT
Booked front row of Grand Circle on closing night with some moet. Cannot wait!
I hope to score a decent(ish) ticket closer to the date for earlier on in the run, but I won't hold my breath for it.
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Post by RedRose on Jun 18, 2019 10:56:20 GMT
No way I am booking this far in advance for a ticket from 70 onwards. And the crap seats are too expensive as well.
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Post by happytobehere on Jun 18, 2019 11:39:55 GMT
Can somebody please help me: I stupidly booked ticket yesterday (in a rush for various reasons) - only to realise today that I booked for the day of my friends wedding! *facepalm* I purchased ticket protection, will that allow me to get a refund?
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Post by Steffi on Jun 18, 2019 12:15:00 GMT
Can somebody please help me: I stupidly booked ticket yesterday (in a rush for various reasons) - only to realise today that I booked for the day of my friends wedding! *facepalm* I purchased ticket protection, will that allow me to get a refund? From the T&C:
If you can no longer attend the Event you have booked, please contact our ATG customer services team no later than 48 hours before the date of the Event and we will cancel your Ticket and exchange it for another of the same price on another date, subject to availability, or we will refund you for the Total Ticket Price paid, subject to an administration fee of £3 per ticket.
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Post by fiyero on Jun 18, 2019 13:48:38 GMT
I am glad to be starting a new job that is Monday - Friday so I know booking a Saturday is fairly safe. My old job was 1 in 3 Saturdays but a fixed rotation - until they changed it! I think I was the only one who rushed to the resource planner saying I have theatre tickets!!!! Still seems crazy booking over a year away but I want to see the show and not spend too much!
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Post by fiyero on Jun 18, 2019 13:49:26 GMT
I noticed a few bits on this show - getting more like Hamilton but not full on rules. I don't think we get our tickets until 2 weeks before and you have to take ID I think
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Post by Steffi on Jun 18, 2019 13:52:32 GMT
I think it might be an exception because they have the "person who buys the ticket must attend the show" rule in place for Sunday in the Park.
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Post by Rory on Jun 18, 2019 14:07:35 GMT
Not sure his views on ticket pricing are reflected by the mad structures in place for SITPWG.
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Post by alece10 on Jun 18, 2019 14:39:25 GMT
Some JG fans might be a bit confused seeing this show especially if they read today's Guilty Pleasure in The Metro and book from reading the article. It refers to Sunday as a play!
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Post by marob on Jun 18, 2019 16:14:29 GMT
Not sure his views on ticket pricing are reflected by the mad structures in place for SITPWG. I hope he is committed to lowering ticket prices, but I don't really see much evidence of that. A good place to start might be by just selling a ticket rather than trying to flog their various "hospitality packages" or access to an "exclusive lounge." I agree that seats could be a lot more comfortable. But... Better seats would take up more room, meaning there's fewer seats to sell. So that would just drive prices even further up, surely? The real question is what does a (presumably) London-based executive consider "affordable"?
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Post by andrew on Jun 18, 2019 16:14:37 GMT
I work shifts and can work any day of the year. I only know a month in advance when I gonna be off and I hate not been able to book well in advanced for anything. On special occasions like this one I have to book a day of annual leave. The rest of my theatre-going is thanks to the wonders of day seats and all the great information I find on this board and theatremonkey.com That's good that you can safeguard dates. I can't take annual leave until I have the rota, and could only take it on 9-5 style days anyway so it wouldn't help with the antisocial hours. Nightmare!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2019 16:44:40 GMT
Some JG fans might be a bit confused seeing this show especially if they read today's Guilty Pleasure in The Metro and book from reading the article. It refers to Sunday as a play! Already seen a few instagram comments along the lines of "looking forward to this play".
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2019 16:50:04 GMT
Alot of American's use 'play' instead of 'musical' and it always confuses me.
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Post by Dawnstar on Jun 18, 2019 17:45:24 GMT
I've never seen SITPWG. Given the prices, it looks like that will continue to be the case! I also have a rooted objection to booking tickets a year in advance, apart very occasionally for one-off performances. I mean, what happens if you drop dead in the intervening year?
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Post by alece10 on Jun 18, 2019 17:51:38 GMT
I've never seen SITPWG. Given the prices, it looks like that will continue to be the case! I also have a rooted objection to booking tickets a year in advance, apart very occasionally for one-off performances. I mean, what happens if you drop dead in the intervening year? You could leave it to someone in your will. 😀
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Post by dippy on Jun 18, 2019 17:58:35 GMT
I've never seen SITPWG. Given the prices, it looks like that will continue to be the case! I also have a rooted objection to booking tickets a year in advance, apart very occasionally for one-off performances. I mean, what happens if you drop dead in the intervening year? You could leave it to someone in your will. 😀 So you reckon they'd let you in with the dead person's ID and the will?
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Post by Someone in a tree on Jun 18, 2019 17:59:49 GMT
Some JG fans might be a bit confused seeing this show especially if they read today's Guilty Pleasure in The Metro and book from reading the article. It refers to Sunday as a play! Already seen a few instagram comments along the lines of "looking forward to this play". One of ex's referred to ballet, musicals and operas as plays. Drove me nuts
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Post by Dawnstar on Jun 18, 2019 19:10:40 GMT
You could leave it to someone in your will. 😀 So you reckon they'd let you in with the dead person's ID and the will? That's the thing: if the ticket holder has to be there then you're screwed. Plus I don't think anyone in my family likes Sondheim anyway! I don't think your executors would be able to get a refund either as when you die your bank account is frozen so the theatre wouldn't be able to refund the money back onto the card you paid with if, like me, you only have a debit card. Yes, I do seriously contemplate at times what would happen to all my forthcoming theatre tickets if I died unexpectedly!
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Post by FrontroverPaul on Jun 18, 2019 20:04:16 GMT
I've never seen SITPWG. Given the prices, it looks like that will continue to be the case! I also have a rooted objection to booking tickets a year in advance, apart very occasionally for one-off performances. I mean, what happens if you drop dead in the intervening year? Since I became a musicals addict I consider that I can never die or even be ill because I always have just too many exciting shows booked. Won't last forever but, touching wood, I've only missed 2 out of over 350 through illness (upset stomach) in the last couple of years and last saw a doctor in 2009. I'm seldom more than 3 days away from the next show and hate the thought of wasting a ticket or missing a show. I do applaud the faciliity to get a ticket exchange or refund on this particular show.
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Post by justfran on Jun 18, 2019 20:35:51 GMT
I've never seen SITPWG. Given the prices, it looks like that will continue to be the case! I also have a rooted objection to booking tickets a year in advance, apart very occasionally for one-off performances. I mean, what happens if you drop dead in the intervening year? Since I became a musicals addict I consider that I can never die or even be ill because I always have just too many exciting shows booked. Won't last forever but, touching wood, I've only missed 2 out of over 350 through illness (upset stomach) in the last couple of years and last saw a doctor in 2009. I'm seldom more than 3 days away from the next show and hate the thought of wasting a ticket or missing a show. I do applaud the faciliity to get a ticket exchange or refund on this particular show. Never more than 3 days away from the next show - that is impressive theatre going! 👍🏻
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Post by Phantom of London on Jun 19, 2019 0:18:59 GMT
I know the tickets are wildly and eye watering expensive, but these are set by the producers and ATG
But FWIW it is worth shouting out and to praise Jake Gyllenhaal to the theatre rooftops for coming over, where he could easily get other stage work in New York or failing that Los Angeles/Chicago/San Francisco, so great he is coming over and doing the West End gig, unlike Hugh Jackman and others that forget what the West End looks like.
So even though the tickets are expensive, it is kind of a nice problem to have.
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Post by learfan on Jun 19, 2019 4:40:33 GMT
Alot of American's use 'play' instead of 'musical' and it always confuses me. Yes they tend to refer to musicals as "a play by so and so with music by..."
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Post by jess173 on Jun 19, 2019 5:47:48 GMT
They had the same “the person booking the tickets has to attend the performance” policy with Betrayal recently and did not enforce it at all. All I needed to collect my tickets was my confirmation email and no one asked me for my ID ever... So I wouldn’t count on them to do that here...
I haven’t booked this yet as I’m waiting on a friend to decide whether to join me or not. I hope the cheap tickets won’t be gone by then. I hate booking that far in advance as I have absolutely no idea how things are going to be in a year. But I guess I will get tickets and then just hope for the best...
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Post by shady23 on Jun 19, 2019 6:59:32 GMT
From all the packages that come up when you are trying to book, I assume someone involved in this production has shares in Moet? "Unlimited champagne" packages too... The bad behaviour thread will be swamped!
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Post by Jonnyboy on Jun 19, 2019 7:00:30 GMT
I imagine that if you die the last thing you’ll be thinking of in your final moments is, what about my theatre ticket?!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2019 7:52:49 GMT
I too have given some serious consideration to what will happen to my theatre tickets if I die unexpectedly. There's always the option that I could pre-emptively offer them to a close friend who knows where to find my calendar and could be trusted not to use my email log-in while I'm still alive, but in the greater scheme of things, I don't think a single empty seat at maybe 50 shows across the course of the next year is going to break anyone's heart, and I'm cheap enough when booking that I won't think "oh but that's 50*£X that I could have bequeathed to my next-of-kin, that could have been a life-changing sum of money". If I die unexpectedly, the tickets will go unused, and I'll be dead so will be hard-pushed to care.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2019 7:57:54 GMT
I know the tickets are wildly and eye watering expensive, but these are set by the producers and ATGBut FWIW it is worth shouting out and to praise Jake Gyllenhaal to the theatre rooftops for coming over, where he could easily get other stage work in New York or failing that Los Angeles/Chicago/San Francisco, so great he is coming over and doing the West End gig, unlike Hugh Jackman and others that forget what the West End looks like. So even though the tickets are expensive, it is kind of a nice problem to have. And in this instance ATG are the producers. They were the main producers on the Broadway run, so logical they are here too. Hence why it was so easy for them to boot 9to5 out for this.
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Post by Steve on Jun 19, 2019 8:47:04 GMT
Every theatregoer dies twice. The day they die. And the day the curtain comes down on the last show they booked.
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Post by Tibidabo on Jun 19, 2019 16:54:07 GMT
I mean, what happens if you drop dead in the intervening year? So you reckon they'd let you in with the dead person's ID and the will? Every theatregoer dies twice. No posts on this thread for 6 whole hours.... Should we be worried...?
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Post by juicy_but_terribly_drab on Jun 19, 2019 17:30:13 GMT
I mean, what happens if you drop dead in the intervening year? So you reckon they'd let you in with the dead person's ID and the will? Every theatregoer dies twice. No posts on this thread for 6 whole hours.... Should we be worried...? That's why the release of tickets was so unconventional and mysterious, it was actually a curse that meant anyone who bought a ticket dies before the date they booked.
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